Class II. COMMON PIGEON. 



383 



Sect. IV. COLUMBINE. 



GENUS XVI. PIGEON. 



Bill soft straight. 



Nostrils lodged in a tuberous naked skin. 



Toes divided to their origin. 



Columba. domestica. C. mi- 

 nor versicolor, dorse inferi- 

 ore albo. Lath. Ind. orn. 

 589. Id. Syn. iv. 605. 



La Pigeon prive. Belon av. 

 313. 



Columba vulgaris. Gesner av. 



279- 



Columba domestica. Aldr. av. 

 ii. 225. 



Common wild Dove, or Pi- 

 geon. Wil. orn. 180. Rock 

 Pigeon, il. 186. 



Bail Syn. av. 5Q. C rupi- 

 cola. id. 63. 



Golob. Scopoli, No. 177. 



Le Pigeon domestique. Brisson 

 av. i. 68. Hist. d'ois.ii. 501. 



PL Enl. 466. Le* Biset. 1. Common, 



Brisson av. i. 82. Hist, d'ois. 



I 82. PL EnL 510. Le 



Rocheraye. Brisson av. i. 



84. 

 Columba CEnas, domestica 



j8. Lin. Syst. 279. C. do- 



mestica. Gm. Lin. 769. 

 Skogs dufwa, Dufwa, Hem- 



dufwa. Faun. Suec. sp, 



207. 

 Kirke-Due, Skov-Due. Brwi' 



nich, 203. 

 Feldtaube, Haustaube, Hohl- 



taube. Kram. 358. 

 Blau-Taube, or Holtz-Taube. 



Frisch, i. 139. 

 Br. ZooL 88. plate 88. 



XHE tame pigeon, and all its beautiful varie- 

 ties, derive their origin from one species, the 

 These birds, as Var7^o'\ ob- 



Rock Pigeon. 



* Columba livia. Aldr. av, ii. 234. et Oenas, seu vinago. 

 233. 



t De Ling. Lat. lib. iv. 



